Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Cuban leader Raul Castro again told President Obama that full normalized relations cannot be resumed until the United States lifts the economic embargo on his country and abandons its naval base at Guantanamo Bay, officials said Tuesday. (USA TODAY)See also:

Monday, September 28, 2015

Sept. 28, 2015President Barack Obama has called for ending the decades-old US embargo on Cuba, in his address to the UN General Assembly [today].JG: message to Barack Obama: for 22 years in a row the General Assembly has repudiated and condemned, by very high margins, including all the NATO countries, the genocidal Cuba embargo.You are a "Johny-Come-Lately" to the issue, Barack Obama. Your piety is FAKE!It is the Yankee imperialist government of the USA that created the Cuba embargo. Don't try to confuse the issue.Barack Obama must think that all the people in the USA are stupid.It was BHO's buddy, JFK, who created the Cuba embargo. He was from your party, and don't you forget it. http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/09/29/02/07/obama-urges-lifting-of-cuba-trade-embargo#T3jKw0PwyX5Pqymq.99

They will close parks, for sure, but the hundreds, maybe even thousands, of four star generals at the Pentagon, and at bases abroad, will continue shuffling "strategic plans" at their desks. FURLOUGH THEM & THE CONGRESS TOO!

“Offshoring is causing dire
problems for the United States. I have suggested that one necessary
reform is to break the connection between CEO pay and short-run
profit performance. As long as CEOs can become rich in a few years by
dumping their U.S. workforce, the trade deficit will continue to
rise, and more college graduates will be employed as waitresses and
bartenders.”

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The United States and Cuba plan to hold talks in Havana next week on normalizing airline service, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, a step that could benefit U.S. carriers if the island becomes open to American tourism.

The talks will take place Sept. 28-29, the official said, as Washington and Havana inch toward normal relations after more than half a century of hostility that followed Cuba's 1959 revolution. The two nations restored diplomatic ties and reopened embassies this summer.

Next week's talks could be announced as early as Tuesday, the U.S. official said.

Voting to abstain at the October 27,
2015 session of the United Nations General Assembly will not make it
possible for you to avoid culpability and liability for the genocidal
crimes that your country has committed against the people of the
Republic of Cuba and many other countries throughout the world.

You will pay for your genocide over
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Harry S. Truman

You will pay for your crimes at the Bay
of Pigs, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.

You will pay for your crimes in
Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.

You will pay for having signed the
Torricelli Act and the Helms Burton Act, William J. Clinton.

You will pay for crimes committed over
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria, George W. Bush and Barack
H. Obama.

You will pay for the collective crimes
and tortures of your CIA and your military.

You will pay for your acts of terrorism
against the Republic of Cuba.

One day you will stand before a Higher
Power and you will answer for your actions. You will not escape. And
you will burn in Hell.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the United States may accept a United Nations condemnation of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba without a fight, The Associated Press has learned.

U.S. officials tell the AP that the Obama administration is weighing abstaining from the annual U.N. General Assembly vote on a Cuban-backed resolution demanding that the embargo be lifted. The vote could come next month.

No decision has yet been made, said four administration officials who weren't authorized to speak publicly on sensitive internal deliberations and demanded anonymity. But merely considering an abstention is unprecedented. Following through on the idea would send shock waves through both the United Nations and Congress.

It is unheard of for a U.N. member state not to oppose resolutions critical of its own laws.

JG: Beware Cuba of the schemes of Barack Obama! He is not worthy of trust.

Monday, September 21, 2015

In 2008, no one thought that Obama would beat Hillary. The rest is history.

Because Hillary comes across as person who is not very honest and has a sleazy husband, she is very vulnerable right now. But she is also the strong candidate of the Democratic establishment and they will spend billions of dollars to defeat Bernie.

All those who are registered as NPA's should consider changing their voting registration temporarily and voting for Bernie in the primaries.
If there is a Trump vs Hillary in 2016, I will stay home.

Drug Goes From $13.50 a Tablet to $750, OvernightThe drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars. (The New York Times)

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Talking about a future normalization of diplomatic relations is a good and worthy goal, but Raul needs to remind President Obama that Cuba is the aggrieved party and that the extremist cockroaches in the U.S. Congress continue to worship daily at the altar of the Cuba embargo.

You can't have the cake and eat it too.

The normalization talks need to be placed in a standby hold. Otherwise, Cuba is compromising its national sovereignty. Cuba will never again should be a neo-colony of the U.S.

Friday, September 18, 2015

September 18, 2015On Thursday, Mr. Obama received credentials at the White House from the first Cuban ambassador to the United States since 1961. The envoy, José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez, had been the chief of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington for three years. (New York Times)

Read a so called "average" poll -- there are hundreds of them, if not thousands -- and you will find that in the U.S.A. the opposition to continuing the Cuba embargo/blockade is huge and overwhelming.

Yet the politicians in the U.S. Congress in Washington D.C. do absolutely NOTHING! These are individuals who on average collect monthly salaries of well over $125,000. They are always in 'campaign mode' 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The public be damned.

The country, once prosperous, continues to go steadily down-hill. Most Americans today say that the country is going in the wrong direction.

Cuba on October 27th will again re-introduce its resolution at the General Assembly of the United Nations titled "the necessity of ending the economic and political blockade that the USA enforces against the Republic of Cuba." It will likely will be overwhelmingly approved. The U.S. Congress will continue suffering from the disease of being totally deaf. Are they dumb too?

The re-opening of embassies in Havana and Washington does not mean that there is normalization of diplomatic relations.

Maybe the citizens of the world should start sending hearing aids to the U.S. politicians in the US. Congress. I plan to do that with my two U.S. Senators and my one Representative.

WASHINGTON — Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown on Tuesday, with Republicans threatening to block a budget deal if it includes financing for Planned Parenthood, as President Obama prepared to join the fight by pushing Republicans to scrap a multi-billion-dollar tax advantage for private equity managers.Continue reading at NYT

25 minutes agoHAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's President Raul Castro will address the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 28, Havana confirmed on Wednesday.

On a first visit to the United Nations as head of state, the 84-year-old leader will listen to an address by Pope Francis on Sept. 25 before addressing a development summit then giving his speech to the general assembly, Cuba's foreign minister said.

"He will hold numerous bilateral meetings with other heads of state and government, and will also hold meetings with various sectors of U.S. society including personalities and representatives of solidarity and Cuban immigration," Bruno Rodriguez told a news conference in Havana.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Cardinal Jaime Ortega, (C), marches at the annual procession of Our Lady of Charity, the patron saint of Cuba, on the streets of downtown Havana in this file photo from September 8, 2015.REUTERS/ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI/FILESLink to Reuters article by Daniel Trotta

Where to Invade Next

Michael Moore’s first documentary in six years, focused on what Moore believes is America’s militant obsession with infinite war, will have its world premiere on opening night of the festival. It’s a project Moore has kept under wraps — one that will surely divide audiences but in typical Moore fashion should also have them laughing, with the premise that the Pentagon should stand down... he’ll do the invading for them.

Source: http://www.ew.com/gallery/toronto-2015-must-see-films/2300728_where-invade-next(Article includes Moore's video talking about his new movie)

More than 107,000 people have signed a British petition calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes when he visits London this week for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron.

"Under international law he should be arrested for war crimes upon arrival in the UK for the massacre of over 2,000 civilians in 2014, [in the Gaza Strip,]" the petition reads.

Parliament considers all petitions that get more than 100,000 signatures for a debate.

(Reuters)

JG: Take him to the International Criminal Court and indict him for committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, September 08, 2015

"Mr. Trump has become a deeply polarizing figure, polls show. While his standing among whites has inched up in recent months, he is highly unpopular among blacks and Hispanics. A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that only 15 percent of African-Americans and 15 percent of Hispanics view him favorably, while more than 80 percent of each group views him unfavorably." (New York Times)

JG: Bill Clinton has always been a U.S. politician that has consistently been fanatically anti-communist and anti-Cuba. Neither him nor his wife are worthy of trust. Expect the worst from the pair.

The compinchesof Basulto in planes #1 & #2 got what they deserved, death. This modern day Captain Spider, put his tail between his legs and hightailed it back to Opalocka Airport. They probably continued to send out letters to the Florida suckers asking for money to "liberate" Cuba, What fools!

After the shoot-down in February 26, 1996 they learned their lesson. The Cessna's air incursions over Havana never resumed. The Cuban government did what they had to do.

Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Dave Somerville, cofounder of rock & roll group The Diamonds, died Tuesday. He was 81. Someville died from cancer in Santa Barbara, California, according to a statement. Rest in Peace.JG: when I was 15, Little Darling, was one of my favorite songs. I would listen to it @ Radio Kramer, before the Revolution.---And here is another one of my favorites:JG: in the 1960's I saw the Tokens tour the State of Oregon.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia on Tuesday attacked GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's call for ending automatic citizenship for children born to immigrants living illegally in the U.S., saying the idea "plays on our worst fears and resentments."

"Some in public life — notably, but not only, Donald Trump — have called for an end to birthright citizenship," Archbishop Charles Chaput said in remarks prepared for a church forum that was part of the run-up of activities to a visit by Pope Francis. "This is a profoundly bad idea."

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